South Sudan celebrates Independence Day
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It is Independence Day in South Sudan and citizens of the world's newest nation have taken to the streets to celebrate. Having voted to breakaway in a referendum, their dreams became reality at the stroke of midnight as Africa's largest country split in two. While Khartoum was the first capital to recognise the independence of the south, border issues and other unresolved disputes with the north remain. Decades of north-south civil war were triggered by differences over ideology, religion, ethnicity and oil. … www.euronews.net
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